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She normally ___ the bus.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: takes
Completed sentence: She normally takes the bus. Use the present simple for habits and states; use the continuous for actions in progress and temporary arrangements. Verbs such as know and belong normally remain simple. A temporary situation can last weeks, not only the moment of speaking.
He ___ in Berlin for five years, then moved to Rome.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: lived
Completed sentence: He lived in Berlin for five years, then moved to Rome. Past-simple positives use a past form; questions and negatives use did + base form. Be instead uses was/were directly. Use the tense for completed actions and past states, not only short events.
The doorbell is ringing. I ___ get it.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: will
Completed sentence: The doorbell is ringing. I will get it. Will is common for instant decisions, offers and predictions based on belief. Be going to describes an existing intention or evidence-based prediction. Both can predict the future, so the surrounding situation matters.
Every Friday she ___ her parents.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: visits
Completed sentence: Every Friday she visits her parents. Choose a tense from the time relationship: routine, current activity, completed past, background past, earlier past, experience up to now or future intention. Do not choose only by one isolated time word; read the whole situation.
You ___ smoke here; it is forbidden.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: mustn't
Completed sentence: You mustn't smoke here; it is forbidden. Must and have to express obligation. Mustn't means prohibition, while don't have to means no necessity. Use had to for past obligation. Have to changes with the subject and uses do in questions and negatives.
If it rains, we ___ inside.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: will stay
Completed sentence: If it rains, we will stay inside. The first conditional describes a real future possibility: if + present, will/can + base verb. Future time clauses after when, until, before and as soon as normally use a present tense, not will. The main clause can contain will.
These cars ___ made in Spain.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: are
Completed sentence: These cars are made in Spain. The passive uses be + past participle. Present simple: am/is/are made; past simple: was/were made. The object of an active sentence becomes the passive subject. Add by only when the agent matters; intransitive verbs do not normally form passives.
She said she ___ tired. (later report of I am tired)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: was
Completed sentence: She said she was tired. (later report of I am tired) Reported statements often shift a tense back after said/told when reporting from a later viewpoint. Tell needs an object; say normally does not. Change pronouns and time references to fit the new context. Reported questions use statement order.
I went out ___ buy bread.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: I went out to buy bread. Use to + base verb to explain an action's purpose. For + noun can state purpose or recipient, and for + -ing can describe a thing's function. Do not use for to as a standard purpose construction.
That bag is ___. (belongs to me)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: mine
Completed sentence: That bag is mine. (belongs to me) Subject pronouns act as subjects, object pronouns follow verbs or prepositions, possessive adjectives precede nouns, and possessive pronouns stand alone. Compare she, her, her coat and hers. Do not add an apostrophe to yours, hers or theirs.
She's the teacher ___ helped me.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: who
Completed sentence: She's the teacher who helped me. Defining relative clauses identify which person or thing is meant, without commas. Use who/that for people, which/that for things and where for places. An object relative pronoun can often be omitted, but a subject relative pronoun cannot.
I'm tired. So ___ I.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: am
Completed sentence: I'm tired. So am I. So + auxiliary + subject agrees with a positive statement; neither + auxiliary + subject agrees with a negative one. Match the auxiliary and tense of the first statement. Use do/does/did when there is no other auxiliary.
She speaks ___ clearly than I do.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: more
Completed sentence: She speaks more clearly than I do. Compare adjectives with -er/more and superlatives with -est/most. Most -ly adverbs use more/most. Good/well become better/best, and bad/badly become worse/worst. As + adjective/adverb + as expresses equality.
___ it was raining, we went out.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Although
Completed sentence: Although it was raining, we went out. Although introduces a contrasting clause; however connects contrasting sentences and needs suitable punctuation. Because introduces a reason and so a result. Use before/after/when to make the sequence clear. Avoid although ... but for the same contrast.
She walked ___ the bridge to the other side.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: across
Completed sentence: She walked across the bridge to the other side. Movement prepositions describe direction: into enters, out of exits, across crosses a surface, through passes within something, along follows a line and towards indicates direction without guaranteeing arrival.
Where ___ they go yesterday?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: did
Completed sentence: Where did they go yesterday? Questions usually invert the subject and an auxiliary. Use do/does/did for simple lexical verbs, but not with be or modals. Question words come first. How much asks about an amount; how many asks about a count.
I have never ___ sushi.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: eaten
Completed sentence: I have never eaten sushi. Form the present perfect with have/has + past participle. Use it for experiences up to now, recent events with present relevance and unfinished periods. Ever, never, just, already and yet often occur with it. Do not use a finished past date with this tense.
I ___ dinner when the phone rang.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: was cooking
Completed sentence: I was cooking dinner when the phone rang. The past continuous describes an action already in progress at a past moment. The past simple presents a completed event, often an interruption. While commonly introduces background activity; when can introduce either type depending on meaning.
We ___ the dentist at ten tomorrow; the appointment is booked.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: are seeing
Completed sentence: We are seeing the dentist at ten tomorrow; the appointment is booked. Use the present continuous for a future arrangement, often with a person, time or place already agreed. A future time expression separates this use from an action happening now. Timetables commonly use the present simple.
You look tired. You ___ rest.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: should
Completed sentence: You look tired. You should rest. Should + base verb gives advice or says what is a good idea. Shouldn't advises against something. It is weaker than a rule with must. Do not put to after should or add -s to the following verb.
She normally ___ the bus.
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Correct answer: takes
Completed sentence: She normally takes the bus. Use the present simple for habits and states; use the continuous for actions in progress and temporary arrangements. Verbs such as know and belong normally remain simple. A temporary situation can last weeks, not only the moment of speaking.
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Correct answer: lived
Completed sentence: He lived in Berlin for five years, then moved to Rome. Past-simple positives use a past form; questions and negatives use did + base form. Be instead uses was/were directly. Use the tense for completed actions and past states, not only short events.
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Correct answer: will
Completed sentence: The doorbell is ringing. I will get it. Will is common for instant decisions, offers and predictions based on belief. Be going to describes an existing intention or evidence-based prediction. Both can predict the future, so the surrounding situation matters.
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Correct answer: visits
Completed sentence: Every Friday she visits her parents. Choose a tense from the time relationship: routine, current activity, completed past, background past, earlier past, experience up to now or future intention. Do not choose only by one isolated time word; read the whole situation.
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Correct answer: mustn't
Completed sentence: You mustn't smoke here; it is forbidden. Must and have to express obligation. Mustn't means prohibition, while don't have to means no necessity. Use had to for past obligation. Have to changes with the subject and uses do in questions and negatives.
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Correct answer: will stay
Completed sentence: If it rains, we will stay inside. The first conditional describes a real future possibility: if + present, will/can + base verb. Future time clauses after when, until, before and as soon as normally use a present tense, not will. The main clause can contain will.
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Correct answer: are
Completed sentence: These cars are made in Spain. The passive uses be + past participle. Present simple: am/is/are made; past simple: was/were made. The object of an active sentence becomes the passive subject. Add by only when the agent matters; intransitive verbs do not normally form passives.
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Correct answer: was
Completed sentence: She said she was tired. (later report of I am tired) Reported statements often shift a tense back after said/told when reporting from a later viewpoint. Tell needs an object; say normally does not. Change pronouns and time references to fit the new context. Reported questions use statement order.
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Correct answer: to
Completed sentence: I went out to buy bread. Use to + base verb to explain an action's purpose. For + noun can state purpose or recipient, and for + -ing can describe a thing's function. Do not use for to as a standard purpose construction.
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Correct answer: mine
Completed sentence: That bag is mine. (belongs to me) Subject pronouns act as subjects, object pronouns follow verbs or prepositions, possessive adjectives precede nouns, and possessive pronouns stand alone. Compare she, her, her coat and hers. Do not add an apostrophe to yours, hers or theirs.
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Correct answer: who
Completed sentence: She's the teacher who helped me. Defining relative clauses identify which person or thing is meant, without commas. Use who/that for people, which/that for things and where for places. An object relative pronoun can often be omitted, but a subject relative pronoun cannot.
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Correct answer: am
Completed sentence: I'm tired. So am I. So + auxiliary + subject agrees with a positive statement; neither + auxiliary + subject agrees with a negative one. Match the auxiliary and tense of the first statement. Use do/does/did when there is no other auxiliary.
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Correct answer: more
Completed sentence: She speaks more clearly than I do. Compare adjectives with -er/more and superlatives with -est/most. Most -ly adverbs use more/most. Good/well become better/best, and bad/badly become worse/worst. As + adjective/adverb + as expresses equality.
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Correct answer: Although
Completed sentence: Although it was raining, we went out. Although introduces a contrasting clause; however connects contrasting sentences and needs suitable punctuation. Because introduces a reason and so a result. Use before/after/when to make the sequence clear. Avoid although ... but for the same contrast.
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Correct answer: across
Completed sentence: She walked across the bridge to the other side. Movement prepositions describe direction: into enters, out of exits, across crosses a surface, through passes within something, along follows a line and towards indicates direction without guaranteeing arrival.
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Correct answer: did
Completed sentence: Where did they go yesterday? Questions usually invert the subject and an auxiliary. Use do/does/did for simple lexical verbs, but not with be or modals. Question words come first. How much asks about an amount; how many asks about a count.
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Correct answer: eaten
Completed sentence: I have never eaten sushi. Form the present perfect with have/has + past participle. Use it for experiences up to now, recent events with present relevance and unfinished periods. Ever, never, just, already and yet often occur with it. Do not use a finished past date with this tense.
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Correct answer: was cooking
Completed sentence: I was cooking dinner when the phone rang. The past continuous describes an action already in progress at a past moment. The past simple presents a completed event, often an interruption. While commonly introduces background activity; when can introduce either type depending on meaning.
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Correct answer: are seeing
Completed sentence: We are seeing the dentist at ten tomorrow; the appointment is booked. Use the present continuous for a future arrangement, often with a person, time or place already agreed. A future time expression separates this use from an action happening now. Timetables commonly use the present simple.
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Correct answer: should
Completed sentence: You look tired. You should rest. Should + base verb gives advice or says what is a good idea. Shouldn't advises against something. It is weaker than a rule with must. Do not put to after should or add -s to the following verb.
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Correct answer: would
Completed sentence: If I had more time, I would travel. The second conditional imagines an unlikely or unreal present/future situation: if + past form, would + base verb. Were is common for all subjects in formal hypothetical be clauses. The past form signals distance from reality, not necessarily past time.
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Correct answer: to leave
Completed sentence: We plan to leave early. Some verbs take to-infinitives, such as plan and promise; others take -ing, such as avoid and mind. After prepositions use -ing. Let and make use object + bare infinitive in active clauses. Meaning and verb pattern must both fit.
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Correct answer: anything
Completed sentence: There isn't anything in the box. Compounds with some, any, no and every refer to people, things or places. They normally take a singular verb. Use no-compounds with a positive verb rather than a double negative. Some is common in offers; any is common in open questions and negatives.
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Correct answer: Do
Completed sentence: Do you like tea? Be forms continuous tenses and passives, have forms perfect tenses, and do forms simple-tense questions, negatives and emphasis. In short answers repeat the first auxiliary. Main-verb have for possession commonly uses do in questions.
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Correct answer: no longer
Completed sentence: She no longer lives here. No longer usually goes before a main verb or after be. Any longer/anymore usually go at the end of a negative clause. All express a change from a previous situation. Do not add another negative to no longer.
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Correct answer: on time
Completed sentence: The train arrived exactly as scheduled: on time. On time means at the scheduled time; in time means early enough for a purpose. At the end refers to the final part of a period or object; in the end means finally after developments. In time for takes a noun; in time to takes a verb.
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Correct answer: Who
Completed sentence: Who called you last night? A subject question asks who or what performs an action and normally needs no do: Who called? An object question uses the usual auxiliary pattern: Who did you call? Prepositions often remain at the end in everyday questions.
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Correct answer: saw
Completed sentence: I saw her yesterday. Use the past simple with finished past time such as yesterday. Use the present perfect for time up to now or an experience without a finished date. Questions about when a finished event happened usually use the past simple.
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Correct answer: had
Completed sentence: When we arrived, the film had already started. Form the past perfect with had + past participle to show an event before another past reference point. The past simple marks the later event. Do not use had + past-simple irregular forms, such as had went.
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Correct answer: might
Completed sentence: Take a coat. It might be cold later. Might + base verb expresses an uncertain possibility. Might not means something possibly will not happen. It is not the same as can't, which can express impossibility. Might does not need do or take -s.
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Correct answer: little
Completed sentence: We have very little time, so hurry. Many/few modify plural countable nouns; much/little modify uncountable nouns. A few/a little suggest some, while few/little often imply not enough. Some and any work with plural and uncountable nouns, depending on clause meaning.
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Correct answer: May
Completed sentence: May I come in, please? (formal permission) May and might can both express uncertain possibility; there is no fixed percentage difference. May I is a polite permission request. May not can mean lack of permission or uncertain non-occurrence, depending on context. Might is not the usual form for giving permission.
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Correct answer: too
Completed sentence: This bag is too heavy to carry. Too means more than needed or acceptable; enough means sufficient. Put too before an adjective, and enough after an adjective but before a noun. Use too much with uncountable nouns and too many with plural countable nouns.
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Correct answer: used to
Completed sentence: I used to live here, but I moved away. Used to + base verb describes past habits or states that are no longer true. After did/didn't, use use to in standard exam spelling. Do not use used to for one completed event or confuse it with be used to + -ing.
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Correct answer: Most
Completed sentence: Most people need regular sleep. Most + plural/uncountable noun refers to a general majority. Most of precedes a definite group such as the students, my friends or them. The most is normally a superlative, not a general quantifier.
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Correct answer: swimming
Completed sentence: Let's go swimming this weekend. Go can describe movement, activities and changes. Use go to + most destinations, go home without to, and go + -ing for many leisure activities. Go by describes transport; go on can introduce a trip or holiday.
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Correct answer: got
Completed sentence: I got an email from Sara yesterday. Get can mean receive, obtain, arrive or become. Use get to + a place, but get home without to. Get + adjective describes a change; get on/off is common for buses and trains, while get in/out of is used for cars.
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Correct answer: do
Completed sentence: I must do my homework. Do commonly describes tasks, work and activities; make often concerns creating something or producing a result. Many combinations are fixed: do homework, make a mistake, make a decision. Learn the whole phrase rather than translating the verb alone.
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Correct answer: me
Completed sentence: She gave me a book. Some verbs allow person + thing or thing + to/for + person: give someone a book; give a book to someone. Buy and make often use for. Explain does not normally allow explain someone something; use explain something to someone.
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Correct answer: think
Completed sentence: I think you are right. (opinion) Stative verbs describe possession, thought, feelings or relationships and normally use simple forms. Some verbs change meaning: think means believe or consider; have means possess or experience. Continuous forms are possible when the meaning is an activity.
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Correct answer: it
Completed sentence: Please turn it off. (the light) A transitive phrasal verb has an object; an intransitive one does not. With separable verbs, a pronoun must go between verb and particle: turn it off. Inseparable verbs keep the object after the whole phrase: look after her.
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Correct answer: am trying
Completed sentence: Please be quiet; I am trying to concentrate. Use the present simple for habits and states; use the continuous for actions in progress and temporary arrangements. Verbs such as know and belong normally remain simple. A temporary situation can last weeks, not only the moment of speaking.
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Correct answer: open
Completed sentence: Did she open the window? Past-simple positives use a past form; questions and negatives use did + base form. Be instead uses was/were directly. Use the tense for completed actions and past states, not only short events.
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Correct answer: is going to
Completed sentence: Look! That glass is going to fall. Will is common for instant decisions, offers and predictions based on belief. Be going to describes an existing intention or evidence-based prediction. Both can predict the future, so the surrounding situation matters.
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Correct answer: was watching
Completed sentence: I was watching TV when you called. Choose a tense from the time relationship: routine, current activity, completed past, background past, earlier past, experience up to now or future intention. Do not choose only by one isolated time word; read the whole situation.
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Correct answer: don't have to
Completed sentence: There is no homework, so we don't have to study tonight. Must and have to express obligation. Mustn't means prohibition, while don't have to means no necessity. Use had to for past obligation. Have to changes with the subject and uses do in questions and negatives.
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Correct answer: get
Completed sentence: I'll call when I get home. The first conditional describes a real future possibility: if + present, will/can + base verb. Future time clauses after when, until, before and as soon as normally use a present tense, not will. The main clause can contain will.
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Correct answer: was
Completed sentence: The bridge was built in 1998. The passive uses be + past participle. Present simple: am/is/are made; past simple: was/were made. The object of an active sentence becomes the passive subject. Add by only when the agent matters; intransitive verbs do not normally form passives.
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Correct answer: me
Completed sentence: He told me to wait. Reported statements often shift a tense back after said/told when reporting from a later viewpoint. Tell needs an object; say normally does not. Change pronouns and time references to fit the new context. Reported questions use statement order.
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Correct answer: cutting
Completed sentence: This knife is for cutting vegetables. Use to + base verb to explain an action's purpose. For + noun can state purpose or recipient, and for + -ing can describe a thing's function. Do not use for to as a standard purpose construction.
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Correct answer: Their
Completed sentence: Their car is red. (belongs to them) Subject pronouns act as subjects, object pronouns follow verbs or prepositions, possessive adjectives precede nouns, and possessive pronouns stand alone. Compare she, her, her coat and hers. Do not add an apostrophe to yours, hers or theirs.
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Correct answer: where
Completed sentence: This is the café where we met. Defining relative clauses identify which person or thing is meant, without commas. Use who/that for people, which/that for things and where for places. An object relative pronoun can often be omitted, but a subject relative pronoun cannot.
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Correct answer: do
Completed sentence: She doesn't eat meat. Neither do I. So + auxiliary + subject agrees with a positive statement; neither + auxiliary + subject agrees with a negative one. Match the auxiliary and tense of the first statement. Use do/does/did when there is no other auxiliary.
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Correct answer: shortest
Completed sentence: This is the shortest route. Compare adjectives with -er/more and superlatives with -est/most. Most -ly adverbs use more/most. Good/well become better/best, and bad/badly become worse/worst. As + adjective/adverb + as expresses equality.
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Correct answer: so
Completed sentence: It was cold, so we wore coats. Although introduces a contrasting clause; however connects contrasting sentences and needs suitable punctuation. Because introduces a reason and so a result. Use before/after/when to make the sequence clear. Avoid although ... but for the same contrast.
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Correct answer: through
Completed sentence: The train went through the tunnel. Movement prepositions describe direction: into enters, out of exits, across crosses a surface, through passes within something, along follows a line and towards indicates direction without guaranteeing arrival.
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Correct answer: are
Completed sentence: Why are you laughing? Questions usually invert the subject and an auxiliary. Use do/does/did for simple lexical verbs, but not with be or modals. Question words come first. How much asks about an amount; how many asks about a count.
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Correct answer: has
Completed sentence: She has just arrived. Form the present perfect with have/has + past participle. Use it for experiences up to now, recent events with present relevance and unfinished periods. Ever, never, just, already and yet often occur with it. Do not use a finished past date with this tense.
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Correct answer: started
Completed sentence: While we were walking, it started to rain. The past continuous describes an action already in progress at a past moment. The past simple presents a completed event, often an interruption. While commonly introduces background activity; when can introduce either type depending on meaning.
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Correct answer: meeting
Completed sentence: I am meeting Anna for lunch on Friday. Use the present continuous for a future arrangement, often with a person, time or place already agreed. A future time expression separates this use from an action happening now. Timetables commonly use the present simple.